Section 71Part 3 — Offences Against Public Order
Making proclamation for rioters to disperse
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Any justice of the peace or gazetted police officer in whose view twelve or more persons are riotously assembled, or who apprehends that a riot is about to be committed by twelve or more persons assembled within that person's view, may make or cause to be made a proclamation in the name of the Sovereign, in such form as that person thinks fit, commanding the rioters or persons so assembled to disperse peaceably.